My Role as a Teacher

When I began to study English Pedagogy in 2004 at Universidad de Las Americas, I was very enthusiastic in terms of acquiring new knowledge, specially in English.

The first year (2004) was so easy to me because I had studied english before, for two years, at Universidad Cardenal Raul Silva Henriquez (ex Blas Cañas), so I was familiarized with the University's life. In that year almost all of the subjects were related to English such as Linguistics, Grammar and Phonetics.

In the second year (2005) I had my first subjects related to Education, I studied some behaviorism and developmental theories in Psicology, this was so fascinating because I could see which are the new directions in terms of Education and the new approaches in learning and teaching a foreing language.

The third year (2006) was much more interesting than the second one, because I could studied subjects related to how to manage a class and how to evaluate the students, how to make a test, also I did my first practice at school, this was so fascinating to me because I felt that I was doing what I wanted to be the rest of my life, a teacher.
But that year I realized that being a teacher is not only deliver contents to your students, is not knowing everything as an encyclopaedia, being a teacher is much more than that. I could see that in subjects such as Jefatura y Mediación Escolar and Orientación y Mediación de Conflictos Escolares, these subjects made me change my position to face the Pedagogy.

This year (2007) has been very special to me because apart from be the last year in the university, I have learnt a lot of things during this year like being a better person, in order to be the best educator in the future and try to improve the Chilean Education or at least give my efforts to do that, I found my real vocation this year, I really know what I want to be next years.
I don´t want to be an english teacher forever, I am considering to study other kinds of Educational fields such as Mediación Escolar or Orientación Educacional, because I feel very confortable and cofident with those kinds of subject.

In the future I will try to be the best teacher, I know there are some things to improve but I will face them with the same strength that I have. I will be worry about my students, I will be methodic and organized, I will keep my students' marks in order, I will try my students will be a better people in order to they change their future and make this country a powerful one in terms of Culture, Lifestyle and Education.

Education prevails, forever!!!